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Today's world in 2 minutes
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Anthropic is considering funding offers at over $900 billion valuation while White House works to bring them back into government fold after they walked away from defense work.
Frontier lab choosing between defense dollars and public funding at absurd valuation.
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Meta deal reversal deepens China-Silicon Valley split while US House probes Airbnb and Anysphere for using Chinese AI models.
If you're shipping with Chinese APIs, Congress is watching you now.
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OpenAI hit 10GW AI capacity target years ahead of schedule at Stargate — that's the compute ceiling everyone thought was years away.
Infrastructure bottleneck just evaporated. Scaling constraints are different now.
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Google told staff it's 'proud' of Pentagon AI contract after internal backlash — the AI ethics revolt is officially dead.
Defense tech is now mainstream at Big Tech. The taboo broke.
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Canada moves to outlaw crypto ATMs amid rising fraud while multiple US states pile on with new restrictions.
Cash-to-crypto on-ramps getting shut down. Fiat lanes narrowing fast.
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White House says crypto will 'take off like a rocket ship' once CLARITY Act passes — administration finally signaling legislative push.
Regulatory clarity window opening. Position before the crowd figures it out.
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MicroStrategy's market cap fell below its Bitcoin holdings value while MSTR stock halved — the premium to NAV just went negative.
You can buy Bitcoin cheaper through MSTR than on-chain. Arbitrage unlocked.
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Bitcoin slipped under $76k after Fed held rates steady while BlackRock Bitcoin ETFs ended April in the red.
TradFi's BTC bet isn't printing. Institutional thesis getting tested.
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Tariff-proof pay: Boardrooms quietly made sure Trump's trade war stopped at the CEO's door with currency hedges and compensation adjustments.
Execs insulated themselves from tariff pain. Wealth preservation playbook now visible.
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Hong Kong posted widest trade deficit since 1952 — trade routes collapsing in real-time as US-China split accelerates.
Asian logistics chokepoint failing. Supply chain bets need recalibration now.